Washington State’s men’s basketball will take on Pepperdine University on December 22nd in the seventh annual Cougar Hardwood Classic.

The event will take place at KeyArena marking the fifth all time meeting between the teams, with the series currently tied at 2-2.  The schools haven’t faced each other since Dec 13th 1986 in Pullman with the Cougars defeating the Waves 82-77. 

WSU is coming off a trip to the NIT semifinals and despite losing All-Pac-10 performers Klay Thompson & DeAngelo Casto to the professional ranks, Ken Bone returns hi

Pullman Police responded to a report of a llama running back and forth across the road near Sunnyside Park Tuesday afternoon. When Ofc. E. Schaeffer arrived at the scene, no llama was found, but up the road from the location, a property owner with a few llamas was contacted. All the llamas on that property were accounted for. Cmdr. C. Tennant responded to the report saying he not sure if there ever was a llama.

From the Pullman Police Daily Log:

Nearly 50 undergraduates have spent their summer in Pullman conducting full-time work as undergraduate researchers with WSU faculty mentors. They'll be presenting their summer research August 5th at Washington State University as part of the National Science Foundation funded "Research Experience for Undergraduates" (REU), one of the six programs through out the nation. It features local, regional, national and global students. One is from Puerto Rico, another from New York. The research ranges from ceramic engineering to creative writing. The research projects are all vastly different.